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updated Thu. March 15, 2018

Tina Daniels photographed plaques at "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" Park in downtown Jacksonville after a ceremony last year at the birthplace of the creators of the song called the black national anthem, brothers James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson. A city task force is meeting about ways to connect withÃÂ ...

The family of a man who died in the Clark County Jail while being restrained by corrections deputies in 2015 has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the county and individual officers, alleging the use of lethal excessive force. Attorneys representing Mycheal Lynch's parents and his estate say the familyÃÂ ...

(Inside Science) -- One of the foundations of the U.S. legal system is the Bill of Rights, which enshrines the idea that there are certain individual liberties and inalienable freedoms that governments and the courts cannot infringe upon, including the freedom from self-incrimination, for example, and the right toÃÂ ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A civil rights group is calling for action by demanding the St. Petersburg Department equip their more than 500 police officers with body cameras. The ACLU of Florida along with the civil rights group, National Christian League of Councils is relaunching a campaign to make bodyÃÂ ...

Mayor Jacob Frey said he plans to nominate Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights Director Velma Korbel for reappointment, calling her a "tough leader" who deserves to stay on the job despite complaints about her leadership. Frey had planned to include Korbel in his first round of nominations a monthÃÂ ...

Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Tulsa in Civil Rights Suit. A federal judge has rejected an exonerated woman's allegation that an Oklahoma city violated her Civil Rights when she was prosecuted for murder in connection with the 1994 stabbing death of her son. March 15, 2018, at 11:18 a.m.. Federal Judge Rules in Favor ofÃÂ ...

As part of the NOLA Resistance project, The Historic New Orleans Collection has recorded conversations with several former members of the Congress of Racial Equality. New Orleans CORE became the center of the civil rights movement here, driven by the leadership of a few visionary organizers.

In California's Central Valley "his name is mentioned in reverent tones, and with good reason," said San Franciscocivil rights attorney Robert Rubin, who worked on cases with Avila. "He's been responsible for so many legal victories that have protected and advanced political empowerment of Latinos andÃÂ ...

March is all about celebrating womanhood, and throughout the month we'll be honoring influential women in history whose inspirational stories helped pave the way for female empowerment and progress. These advocates and pioneers have contributed incredible things to not only women's history, but toÃÂ ...

Places where you can learn about civil rights. The Rosa Parks Museum in Alabama and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in D.C. are great places to start. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is in Washington's Potomac Park. Photo Credit: Getty Images / Win McNamee. By FamilyTravel.com UpdatedÃÂ ...

Attorney General Matt Denn announced the appointment of Deputy Attorney General Sonia Augusthy as the new head of the Office of Civil Rights and Public Trust. Since November 2016, Augusthy served as the head of the Department of Justice's Felony Screening Unit. Augusthy has been with theÃÂ ...

Our primary federal civil rights statute, colloquially called "Section 1983," says that any state actor who violates someone's constitutional rights may be sued in federal court. This remedy is crucial not just to secure relief for individuals whose rights are violated, but also to ensure accountability for governmentÃÂ ...

In this March 7, 1965 file photo, state troopers use clubs against participants of a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala. At foreground right, John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, is beaten by a state trooper. The day, which became known as "Bloody Sunday," is widelyÃÂ ...

A Brooklyn photographer is the man behind some of the most iconic civil rights movement photos in U.S. history. As a journalist, Leroy Henderson had a front row seat to the civil rights movement and captured the struggle up close. From pictures of Coretta Scott King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial toÃÂ ...

During her comments, Sewell became emotional when she thanked Lewis for his contributions to civil rights gains through the years. As has been the case in past Bridge Crossing Jubilees, dozens of U.S. House and Senate members joined a large crowd for the annual event. Faya Toure, one of the JubileeÃÂ ...

The LULAC Council 60 Clubhouse in Houston remains damaged after Hurricane Harvey inflicted more harm to the aging building. The clubhouse connected to the Mexican-American Civil Rights movement has been designated as a National Treasure and will share part of a $450,000 grant in an effort toÃÂ ...

... beginning with HHS, to never forget that religious freedom is a primary freedom; that it is a civil right; that it deserves complete enforcement and respect." During the Obama administration, OCR operated under a two-pronged, patient-centric mission: to protect civil rights and health information privacy.

Members of the bi-partisan congressional delegation are on a commemorative civil rights pilgrimage honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The three-day journey kicked off in Memphis on Friday. Saturday, nearly 30 members of congress were in Montgomery visiting the southern povertyÃÂ ...

"Congressman Lewis, I want to welcome you, your colleagues, and everyone on the pilgrimage to the hallowed ground of the Civil Rights Memorial," SPLC President Richard Cohen said. "It honors those whose sacrifices, whose deaths, propelled the movement forward. Men and women, young and old,ÃÂ ...

(RNS) -- During the civil rights movement, Billy Graham said he was a preacher, not a prophet. And while he is remembered for speaking out against racism and segregation during his later revivals, some scholars argue that he gave white evangelicals a safe alternative to civil rights engagement.

When Birmingham led the charge in the civil rights movement in the sixties, the city inadvertently created big shoes for itself to later fill. Just how Birmingham was the birthplace of many civil rights actions in the sixties, the city wants to be the birthplace of true diversity and inclusion in the tech industry.

A new report finds the gains of the civil rights movement have stalled--and in some cases lost ground--over the past half-century. Among the report's findings: School segregation is on the rise, white supremacist movements are becoming emboldened and more violent, and child poverty hasÃÂ ...

March 2, 2018 - Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis hugs Deborah Manning-Thomas after she performed "Amazing Grace," in the courtyard of the National civil rights Museum, the first stop in a bipartisan civil rights pilgrimage by members of Congress, in Memphis, Tenn., on Friday. "He saidÃÂ ...

John Lewis has led a civil rights pilgrimage back to Alabama to commemorate the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery for decades, but this year the trip will include an emotional first stop in Memphis where Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated 50 years ago. "I think it's so fitting and so right that thisÃÂ ...

CAMBRIDGE (AP) -- Civil rights icon and U.S. Rep. John Lewis was named Wednesday the principal speaker of Harvard University's commencement this spring. "For more than 50 years, John Lewis has dedicated himself to the ideals of equality and decency, standing up for what is right, even when itÃÂ ...

Students from the Stax Music Academy perform the musical documentary "Music of the Movement," at the Rose Theater as audience members talk about what that phrase means to them. Jim Weber/The Commercial Appeal. movement music LEAD ART Buy Photo. Madison Knox (left), Miracles GillespieÃÂ ...

Harvard University announced on Wednesday that its commencement speaker will be none other than venerable Civil Rights icon John Lewis. "For more than 50 years, John Lewis has dedicated himself to the ideals of equality and decency, standing up for what is right, even when it meant putting himselfÃÂ ...

John Lewis has led a civil rights pilgrimage back to Alabama to commemorate the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting rights March, but this year the trip will include an emotional first stop in Memphis, where Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago. "I think it's so fitting and so right that thisÃÂ ...

Lamar Alexander and U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, a Memphis Democrat, are among lawmakers set to make Friday's tour for the "Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage." The museum is located at the site of the old Lorraine Motel in Memphis where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot on April 4, 1968.

One largely forgotten white man found himself caught between both groups: James Hinds. As the historian William B. Darrow writes, Hinds died for his public support of African-Americancivil rights. Hinds was what Southerners called a carpetbagger: a Yankee who headed South after the war. Born in NewÃÂ ...

The changes appear to be in line with a goal of sifting more quickly through the thousands of civil rights complaints the Education Department's Office for civil rights receives each year. The changes appear in a new version of the Office for civil right's Case Processing Manual, posted to the department'sÃÂ ...

Ohio State Universitysociology professor Korie Edwards described Graham's failures on civil rights as a "lost opportunity." She said that while people, regardless of racial and ethnic background, appreciated his television ministry, he didn't use his influence with U.S. presidents to further social justice.

Five Alabama federal elected officials are set to join Alabama native and Democratic Georgia Congressman John Lewis on a civil rights pilgrimage through Memphis, Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma over the weekend to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King. Alabama co-hosts of the Faith andÃÂ ...

In a case that could have wide-ranging national significance for gay rights, a federal appeals court in New York ruled on Monday that a landmark civil rights law bars employers from discriminating against their workers based on sexual orientation. The decision was a setback for the Justice Department,ÃÂ ...

Members of the bi-partisan congressional delegation are on a commemorative civil rights pilgrimage honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The three-day journey kicked off in Memphis on Friday. Saturday, nearly 30 members of congress were in Montgomery visiting the southern povertyÃÂ ...

Powell tells those stories and others both on stage and off as one of the Actors in Sue Greenberg's "Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus boycott," a look at the events that led to Parks being known as "The Mother of the civil rights Movement." Powell, though only a child, was in the thick of the movement,ÃÂ ...

tekolste-sarah-mug.jpg I could tell something was off when Isabela didn't greet me. She shuffled quietly past, grabbed her materials from the back table, and put her head down on her desk. "I am just so sick of it," she said, her voice cracking as she lost her cool for the first time since I'd met her. "How am IÃÂ ...

Funding for Colorado's civil rights Commission and the Division of civil rights is uncertain following a vote in the legislature Thursday (2/8/18). The Joint Budget Committee deadlocked in a 3-3 vote - which effectively shuts off funding to the agencies starting July 1. Gov. John Hickenlooper criticized theÃÂ ...

Al Lingo, (left) who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to achieve civil rights for black people, posed for photos with audience members of his Thursday speech hosted by the Pennsylvania Interfaith Impact Network at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. (Photo by Brittany Hailer/PublicSource).

The Fight for $15 is back with protesters from the South and across the country rallying in Memphis, Tenn., on Feb. 12 -- the same day the Memphis sanitation strike began in 1968, tying their message of equality and human rights to the civil rights movement. The Align crew discusses these protests as wellÃÂ ...

People attend the 50th Commemorative Ceremony of the Orangeburg Massacre in Orangeburg, S.C., Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018. The best way to honor three students killed by state troopers during a South Carolinacivil rightsprotest 50 years ago is to keep fighting for equality and fairness today, speakersÃÂ ...

This state's civil rights past requires a lot of examination in a place like this. We've led the nation in racial misdeeds for 200 years. We've gotten better about it, but with our sordid, violent history, it's going to take more time to reconcile the human division that has separated us from the beginning of statehoodÃÂ ...

SAS has even met with the Director of the Office for civil rights at the Department of education and has been in talks with Massachusetts state legislators to reform a campus sexual misconduct bill. Goldberg has pledged to continue fighting for what he believes are needed reforms to campus due process,ÃÂ ...

At the Newseum, the exhibition 1968: civil rights at 50 takes a look at this pivotal year in American history, as part of a series of exhibitions the museum has curated over the past three years to explore the civil rights movement in the United States. Beginning with 1965: civil rights at 50, which explored theÃÂ ...

MIMS, Fla. (WFLA) - Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette V. Moore, two little-known pioneers of the civil rights movement, lived in Mims, a tiny town along the space-coast just east of Orlando. On Christmas Day in 1951, someone placed sticks of dynamite underneath the front porch of their modest shotgunÃÂ ...

Southern states that once fought to maintain racial segregation are now banding together to promote civil rights tourism at sites including the building where the Confederacy was born and the motel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. died. Fourteen states stretching from Kansas to Delaware, including all of the Deep South,ÃÂ ...